a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1578. 



they have not seene the thing whereof you aske them, 



they will wincke, or cover their eyes with their hands, 



as who would say, it hath bene hid from their sight. 



If they understand you not whereof you aske them, 



they wil stop their eares. They will teach us the names 



of each thing in their language which wee desire to 



learne, and are apt to learne any thing of us. They 



The Savages delight in Musicke above measure, and will keepe time 



delight in anc j s^oke to any tune which you shall sing, both with 



their voyce, head, hand and feete, and will sing the 



same tune aptly after you. They will row with our 



Ores in our boates, and keepe a true stroke with our 



Mariners, and seeme to take great delight therein. 



Hard kind of They live in Caves of the earth, and hunt for their 



living, dinners or praye, even as the beare or other wild beastes 



do. They eat raw flesh and fish, and refuse no meat 



howsoever it be stinking. They are desperate in their 



fight, sullen of nature, and ravenous in their maner of 



feeding. 



Their sullen & desperate nature doth herein mani- 

 festly appeare, that a company of them being environed 

 by our men on the top of a hie cliffe, so that they 

 could by no meanes escape our hands, finding them- 

 selves in this case distressed, chose rather to cast 

 themselves headlong down the rocks into the sea, and 

 so be bruised and drowned, rather then to yeeld them- 

 selves to our mens mercies. 

 Their wea- For their weapons to offend their enemies or kill 



pons, their prey withall, they have darts, slings, bowes, and 



arrowes headed with sharpe stones, bones, and some 

 with yron. They are exceeding friendly and kind 

 hearted one to the other, and mourne greatly at the 

 losse or harme of their fellowes, and expresse their griefe 

 of mind, when they part one from another with a 

 Their chastity, mourneful song, and Dirges. They are very shamefast 

 in bewraying the secrets of nature, and very chaste in the 

 maner of their living : for when the man, which wee 

 brought from thence into England the last voyage, 



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